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I called the pharm and left a voicemail saying that I was going to be late.

Read It! j-ku 2007

They're having these -- they're called pharm parties, where they go and steal, you know, medicines out of their parents 'drug cabinets.

CNN Transcript Nov 25, 2007 2007

They're having these -- they're called pharm parties, where they go and steal, you know, medicines out of their parents 'drug cabinets.

CNN Transcript Nov 14, 2007 2007

I'll vote that the pharm was being a jerk-- but I'm cynical, and take a dim view of human nature at the moment.

Question for Docs about DEA Numbers 1 Dinosaur 2007

They're having these -- they're called pharm parties, where they go and steal, you know, medicines out of their parents 'drug cabinets.

CNN Transcript Nov 18, 2007 2007

They are having these -- they are called pharm parties where go and steal medicines out of their parent's drug cabinets.

CNN Transcript Nov 15, 2007 2007

There is a new trend amongst teens called pharm parties.

BellaOnline - The Voice of Women 2010

They are called pharm parties, and they have already sent some teens to the emergency room.

WHSV - HomePage - Headlines 2010

There is a new trend in teenage partying called pharm parties.

BellaOnline - The Voice of Women 2010

Garvin County deputies last month busted a "pharm" party, a gathering of young people exchanging and taking prescription drugs to get high.

NewsOK.com RSS - home 2008

Do pharm parties exist? Back in 2006, I concluded “no” after investigating a smattering of press stories about teenagers raiding their parents’ medicine cabinets for pharmaceuticals, gathering to share their booty in a big bowl, and swallowing the pills at random like “trail mix.” My two pieces ran on June 15 and June 19 of that year. My efforts to discredit pharm parties failed horribly, as everybody from the Wall Street Journalto the New York Timesto the Washington Postto the Birmingham News to ABC News to the Sacramento Bee to the Los Angeles Timesto Marie Osmond on Larry King Live has continued to report as if the medicinal revelries not only exist but are common.

Debunking "pharm parties" for the third time. Jack Shafer 2008

The earliest mention I found on Nexis and Factiva was from the March 8, 2002, Chambersburg, Pa., Public Opinion. The reporter writes: Advertisement With prescription drug abuse, the scene could be much different. In some communities, kids have “pharming” parties. They go to their parents’ or grandparents’ medicine cabinets and take whatever drugs are there. At the parties, they throw the pills in a bowl and take a handful, [Pamela] Bennett [a flack for Purdue Parma, makers of OxyContin] said. The pills could be Viagra, antibiotics, blood pressure medication or anything else.

Are "pharm parties" real or a media invention? Jack Shafer 2006

But pharm parties, where, “Bowls and baggies of random pills often … called ‘trail mix,’ ” are dispensed, as USA Today reports? My BS detector started growling the minute I spotted the piece.

Are "pharm parties" real or a media invention? Jack Shafer 2006